Thoughts on the CISSP exam
I recently sat for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam. After 15 years in the industry full-time, and the last 6+ years in a dedicated security role, I
I recently sat for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam. After 15 years in the industry full-time, and the last 6+ years in a dedicated security role, I
I’m actually not a fan of the tech industry’s tradition of winter prognostications. It’s a weird combination of throwing darts, shoehorning guesses into the “but a clock is right twice
One of my most valuable but frustrating tools is Wireshark. Valuable: easy to slice and dice through network packet capture (PCAP) data. It’s like a network microscope on steroids. I
Microsoft’s editor of the Windows release health page must be a fan of The West Wing, because they decided to take out the trash on the Friday night before Labor
The lights dim, and the curtain rises Sysadmin 1: So I reset all the passwords in Active Directory, like you asked. I still can’t believe our security vendor reset everyone’s
Farhad Manjoo, opinion writer for The New York Times, recently published a column titled “It’s the End of Computer Programming as We Know It. (And I Feel Fine.)” in which
I’m a fan of Latin. No, not the music; the so-called dead language that was recently praised by a novelist and Oxford professor as “useless.” So when I set out
I recently wrote about multi-factor authentication (MFA) in the context of voiceprint analysis as a biometric authenticator. One authentication method I briefly mentioned was Fast ID Online, or FIDO. It’s
A number of financial institutions over the past decade have implemented voice-based authentication on their customer service phone systems. Call in and at some point you’ll be asked to say,
Perhaps not deep thoughts…but thoughts, nonetheless, on the apple of everyone’s eye in February 2023: Microsoft’s AI-assisted Bing chat. (Cue subtle jab at Siri.) This is why we can’t have